Thakes Cottage, Radwinter End, Radwinter, Saffron Walden CB10 2UD

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 155 m² · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

GE for £1,768 · £884 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£18£230.8 yrs+0.5 pts
High-retention storage heaters£1,000 – £2,500£1,0451.7 yrs+23.4 pts · reaches E
Wind turbine(optional, beyond E)£1,500 – £4,000£4396.3 yrs+9.8 pts
Double glazing(optional, beyond E)£1,000 – £1,500£1926.5 yrs+4.3 pts

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£3,295
per year at grade G
£1,596
per year at grade E

The full plan saves £1,068 a year — a 60.4% annual return on £1,768.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

16 November 2012£425,000

Estimated today: £744,289 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Radwinter End: 16 sales since 1995 · £841,875 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Radwinter Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary1.2 mi
Castle Camps Church of England (Controlled) Primary SchoolPrimary2.0 mi
Ashdon Primary SchoolPrimary2.5 mi
Castle Manor AcademySecondary5.0 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Saffron Walden County High SchoolSecondary5.3 miProgress 8 +0.28 · above average (2023/24)
Samuel Ward AcademySecondary5.7 miProgress 8 -0.23 · below average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

5.8
crimes a month
35
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 49% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01022097, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Radwinter End

How this home sits against its street.

9
graded homes
51.4
average score
D
most common grade
-35.4
this home vs street
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